Background Colors and Gradients

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We’ve discussed adding background images to our web pages – as a background for the entire page and as a background for boxes within our web pages. In this post, let’s look at adding background colors (which we’ve covered a bit already) and using gradients as our backgrounds.

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Free CSS Webinar

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Join us Thursday for a free CSS webinar! This Thursday, July 14th, I will doing a free 1 1/2 hour webinar on CSS. I will be going through step-by-step how to take a sales page that was done using tables and converting it to use CSS without any tables. During the webinar I will demonstrate [...]

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Adding background images

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Background images add a lot of interest to a website. Not only can we have a background image for the entire site, but each box (container) can have it’s own background image. Let’s start by looking at CSS properties relevant to background images, then we’ll look at some examples.

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Creating Nested Boxes in CSS

Create Nested Boxes

In our last post we discussed ‘seeing’ the boxes. In this post, let’s look at creating those boxes. The beauty of CSS is the ability to place items where we want to on a page. Much of this placement is handled by using nested boxes (aka containers).

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Seeing The Boxes

Seeing the Boxes

In the last post we covered how to create boxes within CSS. Let’s expand that and discuss how we do nested boxes – which is most likely how we will be using boxes within a webpage layout. One box for the entire page, then a collection of boxes within the main box. (By the way, [...]

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